Women Quotes

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Henry Louis Mencken

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand, jurist

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch, Morals

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

Elayne Boosle

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

Margaret Mead

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Rosanne Ba

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Wernher Von Braun

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Franklin P. Jones

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Richard Benne

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Booth Luce

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount Jr.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubenstein

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

The Book of Joshua 6: 21

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman